Christian 

HOFMANN

Christian Hofmann became part of NUS Law in 2013, where he currently serves as an Associate Professor. He is also the Head of Central Banking and Financial Regulation at the Centre for Banking & Finance Law and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies. Before joining NUS, Christian’s career path entailed positions as a Professor at the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein and as a Senior Legal Counsel with the German Central Bank. He was also an Acting Professor at Goethe-University Frankfurt and the University of Cologne, a Visiting Scholar and Humboldt Fellow at UC Berkeley, and a Global Research Fellow at NYU School of Law.

Simultaneously with his tenure at NUS, Christian has undertaken visiting positions at other esteemed institutions. These include serving as a Senior Research Fellow at the Commercial Law Centre of Harris Manchester College at Oxford and as a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London. More recently, he took up the role of Visiting Scholar at the University of Zürich, while simultaneously contributing his expertise through consultation work for the European Parliament.

Christian’s educational journey encompasses completing legal studies in Germany, passing the German bar exam, obtaining a PhD, and earning his professorial qualification (“Habilitation”) from Humboldt-University in Berlin. Additionally, he holds LL.M. degrees in Global Business Law from NYU and Corporate and Financial Services Law from NUS. His practical experience includes working as a trainee with the European Commission and engagements with various law firms. His research focus primarily centres around banking law, the regulation of financial institutions and markets, the law of money, and central banking.

• Regulation of financial institutions and markets
• Sovereign debt restructuring
• Company Law and corporate governance
• Civil law
• European Union law